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There’s been confusion since the big tax law was enacted over the deductibility of interest on home equity loans. NAR has been saying that the interest is still deductible for the part of the loan that’s used for home repairs, renovations, and additions. And that’s the correct interpretation, according to the IRS. The agency confirmed that in a memo about a week and a half ago.

The part of the loan that’s used on the house to fix something or improve it remains deductible under the new tax law. Loan proceeds that are used for personal living expenses or anything not related to improving the home are not deductible.

The video also looks at an important vote in the House on so-called drive-by lawsuits. These are lawsuits filed by people who are using accessibility requirements under the Americans with Disabilities Act to extract fees from small property owners. People are sending letters to property owners alleging they have an ADA violation and threatening a lawsuit unless the owner reaches a settlement with them. The person sending the letter typically doesn’t even say what the alleged violation is. The only way the owner can find out is by going to court. Most owners end up settling as the cheaper alternative and if there was ever any violation the owner never finds out what it is.

The House passed a bill requiring people who send these letters to identify what the alleged violation is and to give owners a chance to correct the problem before taking them to court. It’s a solution that addresses a clear abuse of an important law and NAR supported its passage. The bill still has to be taken up in the Senate.

Other topics in the video include NAR’s Commitment to Excellence initiative, which will roll out later this year, to give NAR members a chance to voluntarily assess how well they perform on key aspects of their business, including technology, the Code of Ethics, and the forms and contracts they use.

The video also gives an update on home sales—they’re off to a slow start this year, mainly because of inventory shortages in many markets, especially among lower-cost starter homes—and what’s happening in commercial real estate. Briefly, transaction volume on small cap properties is doing okay but volume on large cap properties is slowing down.
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Real estate practitioners entering into marketing service agreements with lenders, title companies, and other settlement service providers is a well-established practice, but a recent court decision shows why you have to structure these agreements the right way.

An appellate court just ruled that it’s okay for a mortgage lender to refer business to mortgage insurers who are buying reinsurance from an affiliate of the lender, because the reinsurance is a bona fide service and the insurers are paying fair market rates for it. In other words, the arrangement doesn’t amount to a kickback.

Although the case involves a lender, insurance companies, and a reinsurer, the structure of the agreement is something that applies to the kind of marketing service agreements you might be involved in as an agent or broker. Any agreement you enter into with a lender or title company must be for actual services rendered and priced at fair market rates and not simply an arrangement for referrals.

How do you ensure a marketing agreement is appropriate under federal anti-kickback rules? The most important thing is to have it looked at by an attorney who’s familiar with the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, or RESPA. For a general idea, though, there are two tests you can apply:

1.Is the marketing fee you receive based on the number of referrals you make to the company, whether it’s a title company, a lender, or another service provider? If the fee corresponds to the number of referrals, you could be inviting a close look by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which is the federal agency that enforces RESPA.

2. If you have an arrangement to split costs on a joint project, like a newspaper ad, is the split reflective of what each of you get in return? For example, if you and the title company are splitting the cost of the ad down the middle, then half the ad should go to the title company and half should go to you. If the title company is covering 75 percent of the cost of the ad but only taking up 25 percent of the space, that split makes it look like the company is subsidizing 50 percent of the ad cost. Again, you could be inviting a close look by the CFPB.

Learn more about the recent court decision in the latest Voice for Real Estate news video from NAR. The video also looks at what was in the budget agreement enacted into law about two weeks ago. Among other things, the new law extends the tax deduction for mortgage insurance premiums and retains the prohibition on taxing forgiven mortgage debt as income. It also looks at why a recent Supreme Court decision on the regulation of bodies of water is important to your inbdustry.

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11/02/2013 - ppgreens27
Bought a home in 2013.
We were unsure whom to contact for our questions on purchasing a lot, and we contacted Mary as a cold call. Mary contacted us right away. We set up a time to explore as many lots and houses for sell based on the review of the material Mary gave us. It took us awhile to make our decision and Mary was always available for our many questions. She helped us with information we needed to make our final decision. Mary is very knowledgable about the McCall area, and she was able to call local experts in various fields to get us answer as we met. We felt confidence in her knowledge of what we would need to build a house from scratch, if this was our decision. We definitely would request Mary's help in the future, and we have recommended her to our family and friends.

I would reccomend Mary to anyone buying or selling a home. We are out of state and Mary's help is/was superb. We have had many experiences with agents and Mary's expertise is the most impressive of all. We will be continuing our search with Mary (health problems put us on hold) since she is the most informative, knowledgeable, patient, and friendly agent we have had the pleasure of assisting us. We were working with another agent in the area and put in an offer on a newer house. We lost the home due to the agent shopping for/on the afternoon of the deadline of all offers. The offer was given the day before even, then was faxed to the seller the day after the deadline. I did inform the agent of the deadline several times, the agent was working for the listing office. It was a bank owned property, and our offer was even higher than the accepted. We were extremely miffed, Mary was the next agent we contacted after we dismissed the previous agents services. Mary then informed us of the of the newly built home we very much wanted having problems that SHOULD have been disclosed!!!! The house needed preventative maintenance and repairs which would have been exceeded the value. even if we did them ourselves. I have been in residential construction for 10 years, self employed. There would be no guarantee that the type of preventative construction this house required would even work where this newer home is built. Imagine spending near 10k a year on repairs!! This is why you need Mary, she knows the area and is an agent everyone should have the pleasure of working with, if you value your time and money, either buying or selling.